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The story
News that actress Haruka Fukuhara (28) is dating Japan national team footballer Takefusa Kubo set off a wave of posts on 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyo” (general live-discussion) board calling her “a saint who doesn’t choose men by their face.” Rather than dwelling on the relationship itself, the thread quickly drifted into debates over Kubo’s estimated salary, his looks, and Fukuhara’s track record as an actress and former idol, with plenty of jabs about the age gap and her child-star days as “Main-chan.” Opinions split between warm and withering, and the thread never really landed on a consensus.
What people said
Wasn't Main-chan like 176cm+?
He doesn't even have that much money. Footballers don't have much of a future anyway.
Money alone doesn't get you dates. Plenty of stories about some rich old guy getting milked dry and then dumped.
Do it in the Main-chan costume.
He must've caught her on TV at some point.
There's a 3-year gap between them, so maybe he really doesn't know.
She's neither more nor less than Main-chan, honestly.
She voiced a Pretty Cure character!
Maybe she's the big-sister figure he had a crush on watching Eテレ [NHK's educational TV channel] as a kid.
Well yeah, obviously — the guy barely plays.
By that logic no one on the national team would ever be allowed to marry.
If they were all virgins who only cared about soccer, they'd probably have won it by now…
Hate to admit it, but yeah, I feel that.
Be honest, you're only into Main-chan — you don't actually care about Haruka Fukuhara…
Same as how Main-chan is only into Kubo-the-footballer, not Kubo-the-guy.
Every single thread just says 'the asadora, the asadora' — nobody can even name the actual show.
Background and talking points
Haruka Fukuhara is best known for playing the beloved NHK educational-TV character “Main-chan” as a child, a nickname the thread kept circling back to. Takefusa Kubo, who spent part of his teens in FC Barcelona’s youth academy, is now a key player for Japan’s national team, and appears to have a noticeable age gap with Fukuhara. The thread spent far more energy debating Kubo’s estimated income, his looks, and Fukuhara’s career resume than it did discussing whether the relationship itself was even true — much of the back-and-forth wandered well off topic. Note that all details about the relationship come from posts within the 5ch thread itself; this article has not been able to verify them against a primary source.
※This article excerpts and summarizes the 5ch (“Nandemo Jikkyo” board) thread “Haruka Fukuhara (28) revealed to be a saint who doesn’t pick men by looks wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”
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